runnach
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Took company Nissan Leaf up to Perth today. Left my campus EV @ 100%. Working the various controls such as, heat on when required, blower on to clear windows. Reached my destination with 52% in the battery bank, great says I, as I asked where campus charge post was located, on reaching charge point, only one of two plug in points working, and plugged in. Ok says I, on my way home I'll i'll pop in to Broxden Park and Ride. On reaching P&R, no plug in points available, one fast charge, which I wanted, not working, I counted four in total out of order. Fair amount of TESLA outlets available, no good to me.
Pondering what to do, headed south, no heat, blower when required, lights required at Bridge of Earn, due to thick fog. Fog left behind, lights off. I made it back to my campus with 10% in the bank, and readout stating miles available, 15 mile. Round trip totalled 125 mile.
Campus has eight charge points, four of them not working, a TESLA taxi making good use of our free electricity charge points, when he left, I parked up and put on charge EV I booked for the day.
Where am I going with this, Broxden P&R, EV's fully charged and no owner in sight, fair to say with this being a P&R, possibly at work? My destination campus, one out of two EV charge points worked, with the one working in use. My own campus, four charge points down. Today's experience of broken EV charge point does not instil confidence for me to move to EV's in the future.
I like EV's, great technology, and even when road tax is introduced in 2025, EV's will still be cheaper from a fuelling cost point of view, but the infrastructure is not there from my experience today, which is a snap shot, I wonder how the rest of the UK fairs with out of order charge points.
Pondering what to do, headed south, no heat, blower when required, lights required at Bridge of Earn, due to thick fog. Fog left behind, lights off. I made it back to my campus with 10% in the bank, and readout stating miles available, 15 mile. Round trip totalled 125 mile.
Campus has eight charge points, four of them not working, a TESLA taxi making good use of our free electricity charge points, when he left, I parked up and put on charge EV I booked for the day.
Where am I going with this, Broxden P&R, EV's fully charged and no owner in sight, fair to say with this being a P&R, possibly at work? My destination campus, one out of two EV charge points worked, with the one working in use. My own campus, four charge points down. Today's experience of broken EV charge point does not instil confidence for me to move to EV's in the future.
I like EV's, great technology, and even when road tax is introduced in 2025, EV's will still be cheaper from a fuelling cost point of view, but the infrastructure is not there from my experience today, which is a snap shot, I wonder how the rest of the UK fairs with out of order charge points.